Red Hat Shares — February 2017: Mobile application development

Enterprise mobility has become mainstream. If your business is moving to a mobile-led strategy, there's a lot to consider. We've pulled together resources to help you navigate mobile app development for business.

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From the editor

Mobile-centric strategy: From hype to reality

Mobile applications have become pervasive. We have apps for shopping, banking, and fitness—even apps that remind us where we parked our cars. In a pirate voice.

Enterprise mobility has become mainstream, too. If your business is moving to a mobile-led strategy, there's a lot to consider. We've pulled together resources to help you navigate mobile app development for business, including a cost calculation guide, case studies, and insight into how the healthcare industry has taken the lead in mobile adoption (spoiler alert: it's all about using an open approach).

Featured story

What's the true cost of mobile apps?

When quantifying the cost of developing and maintaining a mobile app, the details matter. From planning and design to back-end integration and front-end services, you have to anticipate the components you'll need and the variables that might influence their cost.

There's no single way to calculate the price tag of mobile app development, but we know 2 things for sure: Doing nothing will cost you, and building apps tactically is more expensive.

Customer spotlight

Three expands its mobile app business

Three is Ireland’s second-largest mobile operator, and its enterprise clients have a growing need for more apps that support fully mobile business. After determining clients’ needs, Three develops phone or web-based apps that simplify back-end system integration, improve agility, and reduce time to market.

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Predictions from Red Hat for 2017

Enterprise mobile adoption will be tied to growing container use, DevOps practices will clearly define IT and line-of-business responsibilities, and more mobile apps will be developed for wearable tech.